The following pages show the Street Changes
done in 1906 in the City of Cleveland Ohio.

The table on the left side
of the pages show the OLD street name in alphabetical order with
corresponding NEW street name(s).

The right side of the pages
show the NEW street names in alphabetical order with the corresponding
OLD names.

Keep in mind, that many of the OLD street names
were changed into multiple NEW names.

Please click on the letter group below corresponding
to the street name (or number) for which you are looking (NEW
or OLD). Once on the page, use your 'find' command in the Edit
menu to search for street name.

Look at the index pages for the street name that you are interested in. Find
the page number that that street is listed on and then click on that page on
the left. The page that appears will show you all the addresses on that street
with the new address after 1906.

Once you have the current address, why not go to www.google.com and click on
maps at the top.
Type in the current address and if "street view" appears, you can
see what this house looks like today.

Why were the streets renamed in 1906?
See below.

CLEVELAND STREET NAME CHANGES
FROM THE CLEVELAND CITY DIRECTORY
YEAR ENDING JULY, 1906

Ordinance No. 47575A - An Ordinance providing
for the renaming of streets and the renumbering of houses to conform
to one general system. Whereas, on account of the great extent
of the City of Cleveland and the numerous thoroughfares without
any particular system of designation making their location and
naming complex and difficult, it is necessary to devise and enforce
a comprehensive system for designating all throughfares within
the limits of the City and a complete system of house numbering
in keeping with its present designation; therefore,

Section 1. Be
it ordained by the Council of the City of Cleveland, State of
Ohio, that the names of all thoroughfares be changed or rearranged
to conform with the following general system:

Section 2. GEOGRPHICAL DIVISION. All thoroughfares in the
section bounded by Lake Erie, easterly City Limits, Euclid Avenue,
and Ontario Street, shall have the suffix NE, meaning northeast,
added to the name of said thoroughfare. All thoroughfares in the
section bounded by Euclid Avenue, the easterly City limits, southerly
City limits, to the river, the river to Canal Street extended,
Canal street to Huron street and Ontario Street, shall have the
suffix SE meaning southeast, added to the name of said thoroughfare.
All thoroughfares in the section bounded by Lake Erie, Ontario
Street to Huron Street, Huron Street to the river, the river south
to the Cincinnati Slip, from Cincinnati Slip west to Lorain streets,
Lorain street to the city limits, the west City limits to Lake
Erie, shall have the suffix NW meaning northwest, added to the
name of said thoroughfare. All thoroughfares in the section bounded
by Ontario street by way of Vinegar Hill to Canal street, Canal
street to the river, the river south to the southerly City limits,
the southerly City limits and westerly City limits to Lorain street,
Lorain street to the river at Cincinnati Slip and north along
the river to Huron street, shall have suffix SW meaning southwest,
added to the name of said thoroughfare.

Section 3. CLASSIFICATION OF THOROUGHFARES. The term "Thoroughfare"
means all ways used or opened for public travel, whatever its
present designation. All thoroughfares running in a general east
and west direction shall be called avenues. All thoroughfares
running in a general north and south direction shall be called
streets. All diagonal thoroughfares shall be called roads. All
short or disconnected thoroughfares running in a general north
and south direction shall be called places. All short or disconnected
thoroughfares running in a general east and west direction shall
be called courts. All curved thoroughfares shall be called drives.Section 4. All existing thoroughfares sall have their present
designation changed as follows:

UNDERSTANDABLE EXPLANATION by Laura Hine:

1. The NE, NW, SE, and SW will always tell you what section
of the city a street is in, be it Northeast, Northwest, Southeast
or Southwest.

2. If a street name was changed to a numbered street, then
the second letter of NE, NW, SE, and SW will tell you what the
street is called today in 2002. For instance, in the first example,
Aaron Street was changed to 36th St. NE. Today, in 2002, this
would be called East 36th St. For another example, Abram Street
was changed to 16th St. SW. Today, in 2002, this street would
be called West 16th Street.

3. The numbered streets were given their numbers based on their
relationship to the Cuyahoga River. The first street to the west
of the Cuyahoga River is West 1st Street. The second street to
the west of the Cuyahoga River is West 2nd Street. The same applies
to the east side of the river. The first street to the east of
the Cuyahoga River is East 1st Street and the second street to
the east of the Cuyahoga River is East 2nd Street and so on.